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If anthropomorphizing gives objects human traits, what word would be used for when we give a thing the traits of another, for example calling an internet connection a gateway, or the main system a backbone (that might fall under zoomorphizing).
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If anthropomorphizing gives objects human traits, what word would be used for when we give a thing the traits of another, for example calling an internet connection a gateway, or the main system a backbone (that might fall under zoomorphizing).
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That's just metaphor.
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If anthropomorphizing gives objects human traits, what word would be used for when we give a thing the traits of another, for example calling an internet connection a gateway, or the main system a backbone (that might fall under zoomorphizing).
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If anthropomorphizing gives objects human traits, what word would be used for when we give a thing the traits of another, for example calling an internet connection a gateway, or the main system a backbone (that might fall under zoomorphizing).
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That's just metaphor.
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That's just metaphor.
– Robusto
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That's just metaphor.
– Robusto
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That's just metaphor.
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